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Job Description

Do you want to make a difference every day? We are looking for childcare workers who know Swedish Sign Language for the preschool at Bronsåldersgatan.

Are you a qualified childcare worker and want a meaningful job where you help shape the future? Then this might be for you!

As a childcare worker with us, you will help lay the foundation for children's learning and development. You are an important person in their daily lives; you spread joy, make them feel safe, and encourage them to discover new things.

You work together with engaged colleagues and contribute to ensuring that the teaching follows the preschool curriculum and the School Act. Through play and conversation, routines and experiences, you give the children the best possible start in life.

With us, you get:

• Close collaboration with competent colleagues
• Opportunity to influence the work at the preschool
• Access to training and other professional development

At Bronsåldersgatan 27 in Västra Frölunda, there is one of Gothenburg's specialist preschools that receives children who are deaf, deafblind, have hearing impairments, or for other reasons need to learn or develop Swedish Sign Language. Children from all over Gothenburg come here to have the opportunity to strengthen language, communication, and learning in a sign language environment.

As a childcare worker with us, you are an important linguistic role model. You use Swedish Sign Language in everyday life and help the children develop their language and communication. You become part of a smaller preschool with three departments, a large yard, and proximity to nature. Together with engaged colleagues, you create a learning environment where all children can participate, express themselves, and develop according to their prerequisites.

Qualifications

We are looking for you who are a fully qualified childcare worker with at least 1,300 upper secondary school credits and a passing grade in the upper secondary course Swedish 1 or Swedish as a Second Language 1.

To succeed in the role, you need to be secure, receptive, and engaged, as well as understand children's unique needs for development. You also need to be good at collaborating and communicating, both verbally and digitally.

Furthermore, you have good knowledge of Swedish Sign Language and feel secure in using sign language as the primary communication language in meetings with the children. It is also highly meritorious if you have knowledge of other countries' sign languages.

We also consider it meritorious if you have previous experience working with deaf and deafblind children, as well as children in need of special support.

In your application, we ask you to attach complete grades from the childcare worker education as well as grades in Swedish 1/Swedish as a Second Language 1. Note that we will only process applications with complete grades.

Does this sound like something for you? Do you want to help give Gothenburg's children opportunities for a good future every day?

Then we look forward to your application!

The position concerns a permanent employment and a fixed-term employment until 2027-03-31.

Other Information

Do you have protected personal data and want to apply for the position? Contact Gothenburg City's switchboard, Contact Center, at telephone number 031-365 00 00 and explain your matter so you are connected to the responsible HR specialist at the Unit for Competence and Employment. Therefore, do not continue with your application here.

As an employee in our administration, you are offered among other things wellness benefits, bicycle benefits, and employee support.

In this recruitment, we will not request a cover letter as an application document. Instead, you as an applicant will answer a number of questions where we ask you to describe your competence in the requested area.

According to the School Act, extracts from the police's criminal record register must be presented by persons before they are employed in preschool activities, school, and school-age childcare. You order this on the Police's website.

In connection with this recruitment, we have taken a stance on recruitment channels and therefore decline further offers of competence mediation, advertising, and recruitment assistance.

We only receive applications via our recruitment system in accordance with GDPR.

The Preschool Administration uses digital signing of employment contracts. To sign the contract, you need BankID or Freja eID. If you lack the possibility of digital signing, a paper agreement is offered.

About Us

At the Preschool Administration, you give children opportunities for a good future. Every day!

We are responsible for education and care for approximately 25,000 children in nearly 350 municipal preschools. The administration has about 7,000 employees distributed across approximately 75 professions. Together we work towards the same goal - to develop a fun, safe, and educational preschool for all children in Gothenburg.

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